(from some website, I cannot remember which) The 600e has two sound cards, one pci and one isa. Under linux the alsa
drivers will pick up the isa card, but under openbsd I have been completely unable to get that to work.

The acpi apm driver does seem to have worked and I can shut the case
and open the case and the system will come back up. Thanks guys

Even though this may be the same hardware, I suspect discussion on your hardware will take a different direction than the original. This site also tries to maintain simplicity in searching as a lot of members search old threads. Jumbling discussions together makes searching significantly more difficult to nearly impossible.

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...under openbsd I have been completely unable to get that to work.

What have you done for configuration thus far? Have you read Section 13.1 of the FAQ?

The output of mixerctl(1) is your next best friend. And quoting from Section 13.1:

Code:

Usually the controls have a meaningful label, but sometimes one must simply
try different settings to see what effect each control has.

And on a different subject (although we try to limit threads to a single topic...):

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The acpi apm driver does seem to have worked and I can shut the case
and open the case and the system will come back up. Thanks guys

Very few project developers read this site. The regulars who engage most threads here are simply users coming to OpenBSD from different backgrounds.

Hopefully someone will modify your posts, you should really put that inside [code](HERE)[/code] blocks.. it preserves formatting and makes it possible for us to read the output without wanting to pull out our hair.

Your PCI sound card is from Cirrus Logic, it appears to have a legacy ISA fallback for SoundBlaster emulation, this was once useful for legacy DOS/Win3x applications.

What was the effect of disabling either clcs(4) or sb(4) in UKC or config(8)? is there no option in the BIOS to disable this permanently?

The driver for the "native" PCI chipset appears to be suffering some sort of initialization problem, but it doesn't appear to be fatal as it proceeds to attach.. unfortunately so does the conflicting ISA card.

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What was the effect of disabling either clcs(4) or sb(4) in UKC or config(8)? is there no option in the BIOS to disable this permanently?
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Well, nothing I have done has resulted in either sound card getting recognized by one of the programs I would like to use; mplayer, mp3blaster, morseplayer. It looks like mixerctl and audioctl see some kind of sound card but that hasn't done much for me. Its odd that audio cd's work but mplayer doesn't.

There is no way to disable either of the sound cards in the bios, unfortunately, and disabling one or the other of them using ukc had no real effect. In that, the programs I use could not recognize the active card.

If OpenBSD has no ISA cirrus driver, then this all may be for naught.
Hate to reinstall linux or windows on this machine. Maybe I can live without sound, heh? Oh well, one of the speakers is blown anyways, and when you are typing your hands cover the speaker, so you get a wah-wah effect on anything coming out of it.

Unless someone can work some magic, I am going to have to suffer in silence.
thanks

If you submit a report, be thorough. The developers have no crystal ball, nor do they most likely have your hardware, but perhaps they can glean enough from your description & recounting of experimentation in order to help.